Supreme Court Decision Upholds Ruling that Twitchell Dam Operators Must Comply with Federal Law to Protect Endangered Fish Press release...
Three claims remain against Charlton Bonham, executive director of the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife, and certain others can...
From the Delta Stewardship Council: The California Court of Appeal has dismissed the remaining appeal challenging the state’s long-term management plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the Delta Plan. “The Court’s decision affirms the Council’s authority and role,” said Chair...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water Whenever drought has struck in recent years and Californians were ordered, beseeched and shamed into...
The Tuesday decision by the State Water Resources Control Board affects 10 of 13 water diversion sites in the Strawberry...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: Following numerous complaints from the public, a multi-year investigation and an adjudicative proceeding conducted by its Administrative Hearings Office, the State Water Resources Control Board today adopted an order requiring BlueTriton Brands Inc....
Three measures to overhaul state oversight of water use, giving the state water board more authority over holders of senior...
Monday’s order upholds the notion that irrigators’ rights come after the Bureau of Reclamation’s obligations to protected fish species and...
Friends of the River (FOR) and the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), two of California’s oldest and most respected water conservation organizations, along with a coalition of tribes and environmental organizations including the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, AquAlliance, California Water Impact...
The bureau claimed the state’s standards — which it called discriminatory — would hamper its operation of the New Melones...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water A group of water users on the east side of the San Joaquin Valley is...
Undisclosed finances and vague federal contract left court in the dark. Door now wide open for Biden administration to revise contract and make Westlands repay longstanding debt to restore decimated salmon fisheries. From the Hoopa Valley Tribe: “The court’s ruling...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water A local group that’s suing the City of Bakersfield for how it manages the Kern...
From Restore the Delta: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a decision accepting for investigation a civil rights complaint...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The Center for Biological Diversity trumpeted a court ruling Monday that denied an appeal by Westlands Water District of a previous ruling that kiboshed the district’s “validation” action to have its contract for federal water...